Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed4ffd6fd89fac28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2021-05-11 01:08:13 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 4e0159f2851ee14069aa5c39366429e2 SHA-1: 09c4d0ce5e1eb4c9175c8325cd9afac65c32b02f SHA-256: ed4ffd6fd89fac28cfc868886755bee9641ba87ccabf10c24990e3b91a2d1d1d
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirector lure, pointing to malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains text and links related to 'free Robux' and a generator, reinforcing the lure. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0119

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector critical PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE
    PDF's clickable action targets a redirector of the form /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack — the landing-page shape of a large SEO 'free spins / generator / game hack' lure family that funnels victims through rotating disposable hosts to a malware/scam payload. The multi-link variants also trip ML/link-farm rules; this catches the single-link variants that otherwise score clean. CRITICAL on its own: the /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack path shape is unambiguous scam infra, and the host rotates so a host-list match can't be relied on.
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/rbxcity-free-robux-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00003317.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3317 29728 bytes
SHA-256: c5a8572713e00ba5fcad19c0830a12f979bd3ccb81a2c7d872871db25932cbc6
font_01_sfnt_off00007600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7600 2824 bytes
SHA-256: 45bf821f81e84f4aa8d8374f492b182b36404f38b462c7dc471deaad6ab5c104
font_02_sfnt_off00007fa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FA2 3120 bytes
SHA-256: 49734f51977507cba6bc8d3ad0cee0363aa119856db094427deb9cf565bb7bca
font_03_sfnt_off00008ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AB5 18420 bytes
SHA-256: f6fda3bfe323f9f0676c079c6b9141a3a072b0621584b37e36c0c9937e592518